Hygienic sugar-bowl.



E. LA VINE.

HYGIENIO SUGAR BOWL.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 19, ms.

Patented Aug. 4,1914,

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THE NORRIS PETE/$5 CO, PHOTO-LITHQ, WASHINGTON, I) C E. LA VINE.

HYGIENIO SUGAR BOWL.

APPLIOATIONIIILED JULY 19. 1013.

1,105,803, Patented Aug. 4, 191% 2 BHEETW'SHEET 2.

EDWARD LA VINE, ,OFBRUSSELS, BELGIUM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

HYGIENIC SUGAR-BOWL.

Patented AugA, 1914.

Application filed July 19, 1913. Serial No. 779,976.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD LA VINE, citizen of the United States of America, residing at Brussels,Belgium, have invented a new and useful Hygienic Sugar-Bowl;

and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The present invention has for its object a hygienic sugar-bowl for use in coifeehouses, restaurants, hotels, private houses and the like, and comprises essentially a casing for the sugar pieces, the bottom of said casing being constituted by a clapet device pivotally arranged and provided with an outlet or mouth, wherein a piece of sugar glides automatically as soon as the clapet device is being pushed down, for the purpose of preserving the sugar from being brought into contact with dust, flies and the like. a

In the accompanying drawings, I have shown one formof construction of the ob j ect of the invention, and in these drawings:

Figure l is the perspective view of the,

sugar-bowl. Fig. 2 is avertical cross-sec tion of same, when not in use. Fig. 3 shows the same section with a piece of sugar just delivered, and Fig. 4 illustrates detail views of all parts constituting the su ar-bowl.

Fig. 5, 1s a side View of a modified form of my device, and Fig. 6, shows detail views of the clapet-device and of the control device for the same. a

The latter comprises a casing 1 made of glass or any other material and having at its bottom part a groove 2. The casing 1,

the bottom of which is open for the filling,

in of the sugar pieces, is fittedbypressure in the resilient flange 3 of a collar piece 4, to which is pivotally connected in 5 the clapet device 6 constantly held against the collar piece by means of springs 7 (see Figs.

2, 3 andt). The clapet device 6 is terminated, in front of the sugar-bowl, by an outlet or mouth8 having its middle part 9 hollowed out and being on its lateral walls provided with two springblades 10 ren-v 1 dering thus the mouth narrower for the purpose of stopping the piece of sugar getting out of the recipient orcasing 1. To the clapet device 6 are fixed one or more stops l1 constituted for instance by flexible metal blades.

The working of the device is as follows:

To get one ofthe sugar pieces contained in.

the casing 1, it will be suflicient to push down the clapet device 6 so as to enable 6 being released, it will automaticallyland by action of the springs 7 get back into the first a position. During the pushing down of the clapet device 6, in order to get the lowermost piece of sugar to slide into the mouth 8,the stops 11 (Fig. 3) bear against the next piece of sugar and prevent it from falling upon the clapet device (5 until the latter becomes raised in its locking position. In this second form of construction, instead of the piece of sugar sliding on the pivoted clapet 3, the device is provided with two pivoting clapets 6 which, when opened, drop the piece of sugar into a receiver 12 hinged to the legs of thesugar-bowl. The receiver 12 is connected with a double toothed bar 13 in engagement with two toothed segments 14 fixed to the clapets 6. According to this arrangement and when pushing down the receiver12, the toothed bar 13 pulls with it the segments 14, the

latter operating the opening of the clapets 6 and drop one piece of sugar, while the followingpiece of sugar is retained by the stops 11 fixed to the clapet 6. The clapets 6' are brought automatically back to their locking position by means of a spring 15 arranged in a slide of the toothed barz13 and fixed, on the one hand, to the said toothed bar, and on the other hand, to a fixed part of the sugar-bowl.

Two or four of the beforedescribed devices can be coupled together so as to constitute sugar-bowls with two or four faces respectively.

The opening and closing of the clapets 6 can be made by any other means, without departing from the scope of the invention;

Having fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLettors Patent is:

l. A hygienic sugar-bowl, comprising a casingfor the sugarpieces, the bottom of which casing being constituted by a clapet device pivot-ally arranged and being con- The piece of a the piece of sugaryglicles when the 'clapet 5 device is pushed down, for the purposeof preserving the sugar; fx om anyn eexteriorr;

Contact, I n 1 2. A hygienic sugar rbowl 'coinprlsmg n -comhination,n casing, a, collar piece sup- 19 portlng said casing. and connectedthereto,

'a clapet-olevice pivotally secured to said col- 1:11, a plurality of stops upon said clapet device for arresting the next to thelowen nmne to thls sp Inostpieceofsuger; whilei sztid lovvermost piece slides .-into the mouth of said clapet- 15 device, and

flexible blades for arresting said zlovvermost p ece and for allowing the removal of the same through an opening jof 1 said clapet-device.

In testimony whereof, IT-have signed 2 V v ecification'in' the presence of two subscnbmgwflnesses.

' -l Vitness e s'':-

MANUEL WooDsoN, A? OUT ELE.

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